I was petrified of E.T. and used to think my plug-in night light was his heart glowing at night but I was never brave enough to go over and turn it off!
A childhood belief about aliens

others believed things like this
- when i was around 3 or 4 i belived that the sea had a large plug like a bath and it was draind every night — James Cameron
- .. the knots in wood would turn into dinosaurs. I was petrified of pine cladding.Anon
- I always thought the song Blinded by the light went "Wrapped up like a dousche, another runner in the night"— Dawn
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin
- if I painted an egg on Easter Sunday, it would turn into chocolate during the night— Kay
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J